Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's "China Beach," "The West Wing," or "E.R." ~Michael Cudlitz
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. ~Tanith Lee
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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"Perfect justice rules the world" for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives. ~Iamblichus
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
#quotes #lady-randolph-churchill #women #beauty

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #change

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
#quotes #milton-friedman #sweden

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they are not teaching because of the financial rewards. ~John Engler
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. ~Zen Proverb
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